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SkyCity may test AUSTRAC’s mettle at trial, judge says
AUSTRAC 2023-07-14 9:36 pm By Cindy Cameronne

SkyCity may be the first company to test the strength of AUSTRAC’s claims in court, according to a judge who recently said in a separate case that the regulator’s habit of agreeing to penalties could give rise to a “moral hazard”.

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Age pension does not discriminate against Indigenous Australians, Full Court says
Class Actions 2023-07-12 12:07 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Full Court has rejected class action claims that the age pension discriminates against Indigenous Australians because of differences in life expectancy.

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Judge approves $450M penalty against Crown in AUSTRAC case
Gaming 2023-07-11 4:51 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has approved a $450 million penalty put forward by Crown Resorts and AUSTRAC despite reservations about evidence going to the casino operator’s financial position.

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AUSTRAC’s history of agreed penalties could create a moral hazard, judge says
AUSTRAC 2023-07-11 4:02 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge asked to approve a proposed $450 million penalty in AUSTRAC’s case against Crown Resorts has questioned whether the practice of regulators settling enforcement action ahead of trial gave rise to a “moral hazard” problem.

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Judge slams AUSTRAC’s ‘misleading’ $450M penalty deal with Crown
Gaming 2023-07-10 10:02 pm By Sam Matthews

A proposed interest-free payment plan for a $450 million penalty agreed to between Crown Resorts and AUSTRAC has been questioned by a judge, who said it would have “the Commonwealth of Australia act as the Crown’s banker” for two years.

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Hotel detention legal, but lacked ‘care and humanity’, judge says
Human Rights 2023-07-06 10:27 pm By Gareth Baker

A federal court judge has slammed Australia’s use of makeshift hotel detention centres as lacking “ordinary human decency”, but ruled they are not illegal in the case of a Kurdish refugee who was held for 14 months in two Melbourne hotels. 

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Peru sour after failed bid to trade mark pisco
Intellectual Property 2023-07-04 5:07 pm By Gareth Baker

The government of Peru has appealed a ruling that rejected its bid to trade mark the alcoholic spirit pisco, after an IP Australia delegate found Aussie consumers think of more than Peruvian pisco when they see the name.

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IAL hit with $40M penalty over unpaid NRMA loyalty discounts
Insurance 2023-06-30 4:03 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has imposed a $40 million penalty on Insurance Australia Limited in a case by the corporate regulator alleging NRMA customers were not paid $60 million in promised loyalty discounts.

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Subpoenas need only seek relevant, not case-advancing, info: appeals court
Tax 2023-06-30 4:07 pm By Sam Matthews

A self-represented litigant locked in a legal battle with the ATO and Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has won an appeal of a decision that set aside nine subpoenas she issued, including one to the Assistant Director of the CDPP, with the appeals court finding that the relevance of the evidence sought was enough to satisfy the application.

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Repatriating Aussies detained in Syria ‘easy to do’, top judge told
Human Rights 2023-06-16 11:24 pm By Gareth Baker

A human rights group has told the Federal Court it will file for habeas corpus in a bid to compel the federal government to bring home Australians stuck in Syrian detention camps, with eight women, all Australian citizens, and 18 children being held in Camp Roj in the country’s northeast. 

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